Global Sourcing & Procurement Manager for Sea, air freight, truck (m/f/d)

Reference ID: 41057

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

Your role

• You contribute the sourcing strategy for Global transportation (e.g. Sea, Air and Parcel Services) as well as for external warehouses
• You analyze, monitor and evaluate the procurement markets for this material group/category
• You are responsible for the entire supplier management (tenders, contract development and negotiations, consolidation, analysis,...)
• You monitor and evaluate outsourcing opportunities while ensuring possible cost savings targets
• You are the contact person for escalations and root cause analyses
• You take care of the creation and management of supplier-related master data and price information in the relevant systems (e.g. SAP Ariba)
• Close cooperation with our main stakeholder in Group Logistics is very important for your role

Your profile

• You have a degree in business administration, logistics/forwarding or comparable
• You have at least 3-5 years of professional experience in purchasing, preferably in food logistics or similar, and have an understanding of how logistical processes work
• Logistics/Forwarding Knowledge and background is very important for this role.
• You are a team player with strong negotiating skills and an affinity for numbers, a determined and convincing personality and strong analytical skills
• You will interface with the global sourcing team and assist with topics and activities related to transportation management and freight spend, including tenders and service provider benchmarking
• You have in-depth SAP knowledge in SAP R/3 or S/4HANA (MM ideally knowledge in SAP TM)
• Your working language is English, knowledge of German is an advantage

Your Benefits

• Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
• Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
• Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
• Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
• Anniversary and special payments
• Employee referral bonuses
• Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)

Equal opportunities for all

We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Nicole Arnold. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.